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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Hale, Grace Elizabeth.     Subjects     Alternative rock music -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 20th century.     Alternative rock music -- Georgia -- Athens -- History and criticism.     Bohemianism -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 20th century.     Youth, White -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 20th century.     Nineteen eighties.     Athens (Ga.) -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hale, Grace Elizabeth.       by title:      Cool town : how Athe...       by call number:      306.48426 H162c     Search the Web     Hale, Grace Elizabeth.     Alternative rock music -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 20th century.     Alternative rock music -- Georgia -- Athens -- History and criticism.     Bohemianism -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 20th century.     Youth, White -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 20th century.     Nineteen eighties.     Athens (Ga.) -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Cool town : how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture / Grace Elizabeth Hale. by Hale, Grace Elizabeth. The University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Call #: 306.48426 H162c Subjects Alternative rock music -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 20th century.   Alternative rock music -- Georgia -- Athens -- History and criticism.   Bohemianism -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 20th century.   Youth, White -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 20th century.   Nineteen eighties.   Athens (Ga.) -- History -- 20th century. Series Ferris and Ferris book. ISBN:  9781469664057 (pbk) Description:  371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy southern college town of Athens, Georgia, only increased the fascination. Soon, more Athens bands followed the B-52's into the vanguard of the new American music that would come to be known as 'alternative,' including R.E.M., who catapulted over the course of the 1980s to the top of the musical mainstream. As acts like the B-52's, R.E.M., and Pylon drew the eyes of New York tastemakers southward, they discovered in Athens an unexpected mecca of music, experimental art, DIY spirit, and progressive politics -- a creative underground as vibrant as any to be found in the country's major cities. In Athens in the eighties, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible. Cool Town reveals the passion, vitality, and enduring significance of a bohemian scene that became a model for others to follow. Grace Elizabeth Hale experienced the Athens scene as a student, small-business owner, and band member. Blending personal recollection with a historian's eye, she reconstructs the networks of bands, artists, and friends that drew on the things at hand to make a new art of the possible, transforming American culture along the way. In a story full of music and brimming with hope, Hale shows how an unlikely cast of characters in an unlikely place made a surprising and beautiful new world."--Publisher. Genre:  Music criticism and reviews. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 306.48426 H162c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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